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Well, I guess I won't be updating this blog so much now that I'm not really doing anything... I don't even have a job yet!! I hit the pavement yesturday and dropped a résumé off at 6 establishments though! Remedy Café, Highlevel Diner, Mosaics Café, The King & I - Thai Cuisine, DaDeO's, and the International Hostel just off Whyte. I guess now I play the waiting game and I really hate that cuz in the mean time, I'm not making any moula and it is MUCH harder to live for cheap in North America than it was in Cambodia or Thailand even... Luckily I have really sweet friends who have taken me in for however long I need: let's give a warm hello to the lovely Alana and her partner in crime Shane! Thank's dudes. Truly. So I've been meeting up with friends since having returned from my way-cool week in Vancouver with Kirsten. Upon my arrival into Edmonchuck, I was extatic to see a particular Simon Pacey waiting at the lovey couple's home after having been picked up from the airport - after a 3 hour delayed flight - by Alana. I was story-teller for the evening and it was a nice way to be received... I don't think I could have handled a big get-together at that point! I then spent a few days in crazy exciting (nb. sarcasm) Athabasca with Carly and realized for certain how I could never live in that town. haha Sorry Carly! In the words of a Metalica song: Sad But True. Got back last Wednesday night, left the next morning for Fort Crack with my bro... purpose: needed more clothes! How would you feel after wearing the same fucking thing for 6 months? heehee Spent a couple hours, saw my wonderful papa for about 40 mins, and then the Jermster & I hit the highway for the long drive back to the city of champions. Left the next morning for Calgary where I spent the weekend laughing my ass off with Monique and Erica (the woman who joined us in Spain). Met up with my for sure life-long friend Jami Cook for a yummy 3 hour lunch... AWESOME to see you girl!! Thank-you so much for driving all the way out for me! Met up with another old friend: Mike McQueen Jacobson for a few hours! Good times were had, my favorite part was the newly-renovated Chinook Center... not! Talking with Mike was fun though! :-) Got back again to the former home of what's his face legendary hockey player this past Sunday evening and I've been here ever since. How exciting eh? heehee

Though I'm not doing humanitarian work here, being back isn't so bad. I still don't feel I'm really living since the only place I felt that was in Cambodia... making positive change, being a part of that change, looking down on those beautiful little smiles... but I don't think I'll be heading down that crazy road any time soon. I'm too motivated! I need my precious marbles! Seeing my friends and family again is really good for my heart; I appreciate you more, I love you more. I really wish you could pull up a chair in the kitchen of my mind (cuz kitchens always end up being where the party's at) and see/experience for yourself what I experienced in Asia... what I experienced in Europe too!! I haven't forgotten about you Land of Zippy Ztaziki, Turkey lurkey do, Amsterdam (though that was a close call!), Praha, Germany, and like Ireland will ever slip my mind... Spain... Ya. Europe was cool. Don't think I'll go again until I can really afford to. Maybe retirement? heehee No no, I'm going back to Amsterdam in 2015 for a reunion tour with Monique! heehee I'll be 35 and you'll be, what, 37? Almost 40? haha Oh Monique, I know which buttons to press and they are always so exposed! But ya, those are longterm plans: always subject to change.

Speaking of change... I need some help! I'm chopping the dreaded locks! I want to bare my soul to all of you as well as my noggen! heehee Can you help me choose?

In order from the 1st to the 7th, from left to right across the page and down. What do you think? I know #2 probably won't be possible until my hair grows out a bit, but you never know... I might be able to comb out quite a bit to make it somewhat possible. I'm kinda diggin #3, the wee faux hawk! I've always wanted a fun short do! ~sigh~ Bye bye dreads...